Regina Lombardo is an American law enforcement official previously serving as acting director of the

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly referred to as the ATF, is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevent ...

Early life and education

Lombardo was born in

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

on December 21, 1962, the daughter of Italian immigrants. As a child, her family moved to

Cape Coral, Florida Cape Coral is a city located in Lee County, Florida, United States, on the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 1957 and developed as a planned community, the city's population has grown to 194,016 as of the 2020 Census, a rise of 26% from the 2010 Census ...

. After attending

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, Lombardo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from the

University of South Florida The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. It is one of 12 members of the State University System of Florida. USF is ...

Career

Lombardo began her career with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms in 1992 as a special agent at the field office in

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

. Lombardo eventually served as Group Supervisor for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force in

, Assistant ATF Country Attaché in

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, Chief of the ATF Leadership Institute, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the

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Field Division, Special Agent in Charge of the

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Field Division, Deputy Assistant Director of Field Operations for the Central Region, and Assistant Director of the Office of Human Resources and Professional Development. Lombardo served as Acting Deputy Director of ATF from March 2018 until she was formally nominated to serve as Acting Director by the

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, on April 24, 2019. Lombardo took office on May 1, 2019, succeeding Thomas Brandon, who was retiring. In May 2021, The

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

announced that it had appointed Lombardo as Chief Security Officer.

References

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